One of the articles in the new Digimag 49 / November 2009 is TRIMPIN: THE SOUND OF INNOVATION by Alessandra Migani.

[image: by Peter Esmonde ]

He writes about the film, Trimpin: The Sound of Invention, an homage by the director Peter Esmonde to the creative genius, artist, inventor and musician Trimpin, and about Trimpin’s life and work: Among his works of art, I would like to remember Sheng High, i.e. an installation created in 2009 for the Ojai Music Festival, in which the author make use of a principle typical of the Chinese world of thousands of years ago. It is a sound sculpture that interacts with a natural element, in this case water, and whose main character is a sophisticated system of shaking bamboo woods. Another project titled Klompen, developed for The Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, is made of 96 Dutch clogs with a little hammer inside hanging in the air through a thread and which diffuses a rhythmical symphony controlled form a PC. Continue reading

VIVO Media Arts Centre in Vancouver is currently seeking submissions by artists and curators for their Signal & Noise festival, which will take place May 27-29, 2010. Next year marks the tenth anniversary of this contemporary media and sound art festival, which showcases single and multi-channel audio & video works, live performances and immersive installations. The deadline for applications is January 10, 2010. For more information and to apply, visit http://www.signalandnoise.ca/submissions/.

Playlist: Playing Games, Music, Art curated by Domenico Quaranta (Brescia, Italia) :: December 18, 2009 – May 17, 2010 :: Mediateca Expandida de LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, Los Prados, 121, 33394 Gijón – Asturias.

Along the Twentieth Century, music has often been the driving force behind crucial innovations in visual arts, and the starting point for many artists. Without forgetting the role played by music in the development of abstract art, it was mainly during the Sixties that music provided a fertile ground for new approaches, new theories, new art forms, new aesthetics. John Cage was a musician working with artists and engineers. The very first performance (the Untitled Event at Black Mountain College in 1952) was a musical event, such as many Fluxus events during the Sixties. Furthermore, Fluxus adopted music notation for its peculiar “scores”. Continue reading

Anne Bean at InCounter :: November 28, 2009; 8:00 – 11:00 p.m. :: Campbell Works, 27 Belfast Road, London.

Anne Bean will be performing with Bow Gamelan Ensemble collaborator, sculptor Richard Wilson and Susie Honeyman of The Mekons, at InCounter – a night of live sonic art, performance and video, at Campbell Works in Stoke Newington, London. Also performing will be Artsadmin Bursary recipient Melanie Clifford, and a wealth of other artists.

Campbell Works is the creative partnership of artists Neil Taylor & Harriet Murray. Their studio practice extends to running an artist led gallery space, initiating and curating art projects, and undertaking a wide range of public realm interventions. Continue reading

AUTONOMOUS SOUNDS I + II :: Frozen Music’s New Outdoors Pieces For Art Basel Week :: December 3-4, 2009; 7:00 – 11:00 p.m. :: Carl Fisher Club House and Amphitheater Complex, 2100 Washington Avenue, Miami Beach.

After the success of CANAL, the 13-hour-long piece that won the hearts of all who experienced it during Sleepless Night, subtropics.org and SoBe Institute of the Arts bring back Frozen Music Ensemble (Gustavo Matamoros, David Dunn–Rene Barge) with two new pieces titled Autonomous Sounds I & Autonomous Sounds II featuring FM’s core member David Dunn.

Tzwartetafeltjeconcert :: December 9-10, 2009; 10:00 pm – 1:00 a.m. :: Villa Drashhoek, Ghent, Belgium.

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Essential Repertoire :: Thursday, December 3 through Saturday, December 5, 2009 at 8:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m. :: ISSUE Project Room (at the Old American Can Factory), 232 3rd Street (at 3rd ave), Brooklyn NY 11215 :: Tickets $20/at the door, $15 in advance (available online at http://www.issueprojectroom.org or for cash purchase at Other Music) F, M, R to 9th Street-4th Ave

Brooklyn-based music series Darmstadt: “Classics of the Avant Garde” presents its second-annual Essential Repertoire festival of cherished compositions from the experimental canon. This year’s iteration celebrates the 30th anniversary of the seminal New Music New York concerts curated by Rhys Chatham and held at The Kitchen (then on Broome Street), which put the still-burgeoning Downtown Scene – at the crossroads of minimalism, interdisciplinary performance, and various strains of post-punk – under a mainstream spotlight and redefined the presentation of experimental music. Continue reading

make art is an international festival dedicated to the integration of Free/Libre/Open Source Software (FLOSS) in digital art. The fourth edition of make art – What The Fork? distributed and open practices in FLOSS art – will take place in Poitiers (FR), from the 8th to the 13th of December 2009.

make art is an international festival focused on Free/Libre/Open Source Software (FLOSS) and open content in digital arts. make art offers performances, presentations, workshops and an exhibition, focused on the blurred line between art and software programming. The festival is dedicated to all free software artists, open hardware hackers and command-line fetishists out there. Continue reading

From eastbayexpress.com: The Fall of Pirate Cat Radio by David Downs.

The Bay Area’s biggest pirate radio station is off the air, fined $10,000 for illegal broadcast, and its owner threatened with arrest if he returns. But Pirate Cat Radio isn’t going quietly into the night.

Not only is the thirteen-year-old San Francisco station still quasi-legally streaming to half a million listeners online per month, but the 1,200-watt station formerly broadcasting at 87.9 FM is fighting the Federal Communications Commission in federal court. While the station is raising funds to pay its fine with local events this month, it has joined a historic battle under way in Washington, DC over local control of the airwaves. Station owner Monkey (aka Daniel Roberts) says terrestrial radio has failed to serve the public interest, and Pirate Cat is fighting for consumer rights alongside pirates and politicians across America. Read more here .

Takuro Mizuta Lippit a.k.a. DJ Sniff :: November 23, 2009; 11:00 p.m. :: UdK Medienhaus, Grunewaldstrasse 2-5, Schoeneberg, 10823 Berlin (U7, station Kleistpark), Room 111 (class de Campo).

STEIM – 40 years in live electronic arts by Takuro Mizuta Lippit / Artistic Director.

For the last forty years STEIM, Studio for Electro-Instrumental Music, Amsterdam has been the leading institution in research, development and facilitating live electronic music and arts. Many unique instruments and tools have been created over the years; Blackbox Modular Synth System, Crackle Box, SensorLab, The Hands, LiSa and JunXion are just to name a few. Continue reading